Question

Description:

Sylvia Gonzales, a 51-year-old female, is at the office for a 3-month return check for her newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes. She states that she has taken the medication she received for her “sugar” and she knows the doctor wants to a do a special “sugar test” this time. Her medication list includes Januvia® 100 mg daily.

The physician has ordered a fasting blood sugar (FBS) and a hemoglobin A1C blood test. You will need to perform both of these waived tests in your office lab.

Discussion Questions:

1. Identify equipment used by a medical assistant in an office laboratory.

2. You will be measuring Sylvia’s fasting blood glucose using a glucometer. You know this is classified as a waived test. What does the classification of waived test mean?

3. The glucometer contains an instrument called a photometer. How is blood glucose measured using a photometer?

4. Measuring blood glucose is a quantitative test. What does this mean?

5. What type of controls do you expect to use when measuring Sylvia’s blood glucose?

6. When should you run the controls?

Please answer all 6 questions separately. Thank you so much.

Answer 1

The equipment used by the medical assistant in the office laboratory to check the sugar level is GLUCOMETER

Waived test is the simple form of test which has the low risk to have incorrect report or value.This is designated by CLIA (Clinicl Laboratory Improvement Amendments)

The functioning of the photometer in the glucometer

Normally the glucometer work with the help of photomete which functioning with the help of infraraed light.There is reaction occur between the blood and the glucose strip,this photometer read the infrared light reflected from the reacted components of the blood and this is valued as blood glucose value and is displayed.Thats how glucose measured using photometer.

Quntitative test means something we measure and the value displayed in the neumerical form.Hete the level of glucose we measure is the number(QUANTITY) of the glucose present.So it is known as the quantitative test.